Suitability of current typing procedures to identify epidemiologically linked human Giardia duodenalis isolates.

Suitability of current typing procedures to identify epidemiologically linked human Giardia duodenalis isolates.

<h4>Background</h4>Giardia duodenalis is a leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide. Humans are mainly infected by two different subtypes, i.e., assemblage A and B. Genotyping is hampered by allelic sequence heterozygosity (ASH) mainly in assemblage B, and by occurrence of mixed infect...

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Main Authors: Andreas Woschke, Mirko Faber, Klaus Stark, Martha Holtfreter, Frank Mockenhaupt, Joachim Richter, Thomas Regnath, Ingo Sobottka, Ingrid Reiter-Owona, Andreas Diefenbach, Petra Gosten-Heinrich, Johannes Friesen, Ralf Ignatius, Toni Aebischer, Christian Klotz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-03-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009277

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